Silent Update

Status

Master feature page for all components that are required to deliver a "silent update" experience to users. Features currently under development.

Team

Product manager

Chris Lee

Directly Responsible Individual

Lawrence Mandel

Lead engineer

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Security lead

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Privacy lead

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Localization lead

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Accessibility lead

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QA lead

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UX lead

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Product marketing lead

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Operations lead

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Additional members

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

This feature falls under the Experience theme.

With the transition to the Rapid Release development model, the frequency in which we interrupt a user's workflow will be increasingly more common. With goals to offer a secure, feature-rich, and fun browsing experience, we want to ensure everyone is on the latest version of Firefox. To achieve this goal, this particular feature will breakdown the necessary pieces to deliver a silent update experience.

Silent Update is comprised of the following 6 components:

1) Remove download/update dialog when new Firefox version is available (feature page):

Update dialog will no longer be appropriate with Rapid Releases

This dialog appears during the user's current session and its purpose is only to notify the user that a download is happening in the background

2) Move bulk of update to background before shut down and remove update UI from browser start-up. (feature page):

Given the download is happening in the background without notifying the user based on 1), this component will shift bulk of the installation process to the user's current session before the restart